To a great extent, Pakistan and Turkey rely on imported fossil fuels to meet their energy demands. Pakistan is moving in the right direction, placing focus on renewable energy resources in its current infrastructure in order to address the energy shortage. Several projects (e.g., wind power and solar PV (photovoltaic) technologies) are operational or under development; they are intended to reduce energy challenges in Pakistan. The new government in Pakistan aims to increase the share of renewable energy in total power generation to 30% by 2030. On the other hand, Turkey surpasses Pakistan in renewable energy resources; for example, there are 186 operational wind energy power plants across the country. In addition, Turkey utilizes solar energy—mainly for residential usage. Turkey’s Vision 2023 energy agenda aims to supply 30% of their power demands from modern renewable energy resources. Turkey has implemented solar PV, solar buildings, wind power plants, geothermal energy resources, and biomass technology for heating, cooling and electricity generation. At present, Turkey’s supply to meet energy demands in the country is 56% fossil fuel energy resources and 44% renewable energy, including hydropower. Accessible details reveal that geothermal energy resources have been continuously neglected in Pakistan by the Ministry of Energy (power division); this is in contrast to the Turkish case, in which utilization of geothermal energy resources for heating and cooling purposes is efficient. With all the facts and figures under consideration, in this paper, comparative analyses are performed which reveal that the production of electricity from geothermal energy technologies is lower than the massive potential in both countries. Recommendations are made for important policies to promote renewable energy technologies, which could effectively support energy decentralization by providing electricity to rural areas and the national grid.

Forecasting the microeconomics of electricity will turn into a challenging process when electricity is produced through renewable energy technologies (RET). These technologies are mainly sunlight-based photovoltaic (PV), wind power, and tidal resources, which vigorously rely upon ecological conditions. For a reliable and livable energy supply to the electricity grid from renewable means, electrical energy storage technologies can play an important role while considering the weather effects in order to provide immaculate, safe, and continuous energy throughout the generation period. Energy storage technologies (ESTs) charge themselves during the low power demand period and discharge when the demand of electricity increases in such a way that they act as a catalyst to provide energy boost to the power grid. In this paper, we presented and discussed the renewable ESTs for each type with respect to their operational mechanism. In this regard, the renewable energy scenarios of Pakistan and Turkey are first discussed in detail by analyzing the actual potential of each renewable energy resource in both the countries. Then, policy for the EST utilization for both the countries is recommended in order to secure sustainable and reliable energy provision.

This paper presents a novel, low-cost and smart design setup (plug and play) to measure the needle attachment force of surgical suture in order to check attachment quality and verify the surgical suture manufacturing standards. The proposed design uses needle gripper, tactile sensor, suture gripper (connected via motorized lead screw) and infrared sensor, which is mounted over a linear guide. The ends of surgical suture (comprising of needle and thread) are attached between needle gripper and suture gripper, respectively. The motorized suture gripper creates stress on the attachment point of needle and thread of surgical suture, whose force is measured by a tactile sensor followed by the application of Kalman filtering for precise estimation and (then) calibration. An infrared sensor is used to track suture gripper position to stay within the displacement limits and to obtain the characteristic force-position profile as well. In addition, the two interactive graphical interfaces (an OLED and LABVIEW-based installed on windows) are embedded on the device to feature user friendly interface. Moreover, for quick documentation and record, thermal printer is installed inside the setup, which provides the time-stamped summary of different sutures being tested. Both the sensors, force filtering, OLED and thermal printer are communicated by advanced ATmega2560 controller. In order to validate the significance of the proposed design setup; (i) Solidworks simulation for motion study is conducted; (ii) real experimental measurements of pull and destructive forces for different gauges of sutures are performed and verified with standards; (iii) comparisons with other relevant devices/approaches in terms of (a) being cost-effective and (b) showing optimized methodology are also presented.